Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
